2:00 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ruth Lehmann
President and Director, Whitehead Institute
Professor of Biology, MIT

Matteo Di Bernardo 
Symposium Co-Organizer
Cheeseman Lab, Whitehead Institute

2:10 

Learning single-cell multiomic trajectories with neural ODEs
Christina Leslie
Member, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2:40 

Mosaics, Atlases, and STATE: Towards building a virtual model of the cell
Hani Goodarzi
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco; Core Investigator, Arc Institute

3:10

Systems cell biology: From architecture to information
Manuel Leonetti
Sr. Group Leader & Director of Systems Biology, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

3:40

Break

4:00 

Linear-time protein-protein interaction prediction with genomic language modeling
Yunha Hwang
Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professor, Assistant Professor of EECS and the Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT

4:30 

Riding an AI wave of protein science and cell biology
Ron Vale
Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MIT

5:00 

The Exchange
A roundtable discussion exploring the transformative role of AI in the life sciences, featuring session speakers in conversation with Ruth Lehmann.

5:30

Closing Remarks

Poster Session and Reception
Whitehead Café, 1st Floor

7:00 

Conclusion